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CHAPTER IV
PIONEER TRAVEL IN KENTUCKY
THE following interesting and vivid picture of early travel in Kentucky is taken from Judge James Hall's Legends of the West (Philadelphia, 1832); though largely a work of fiction, such descriptions as these are as lifelike as the original picture.
The place at which the party landed was a small village on the bank of the [Ohio] river, distant about fifty miles from a settlement in the interior to which they were destined.
"Here we are on dry land once more," said the Englishman as he jumped ashore; "come, Mr. Logan, let us go to the stage-house and take our seats." Logan smiled, and followed his companion.
"My good friend," said Edgarton, to a tall, sallow man in a hunting-shirt, who sat
